Posts Tagged "Education & Pedagogy"

In this webinar, Dr. Levy will present some of the contemplative exercises and methods used in his courses and seminars. He will also discuss the philosophy underlying them, which places the emphasis on student discoveries through mindful observation and reflection, rather than on general rules that everyone should, or must, obey.

Prof. Alberto López Pulido presents a webinar underscoring the importance of contemplative practices for students of color at a private Roman Catholic University in San Diego, California. Through this work, a new Pedagogic Imaginary is put forth that embraces cultural diversity and social justice for all students, but in particular, students of color and first-generation students.

Brady, R. (2005). Learning to Stop; Stopping to Learn: Embarking on the Contemplative Learning Path.
Summary:
Contemplative pedagogy is a young and growing approach in American education. It invites new possibilities for the emergence of creativity and promotes depth of understanding and a more personal relationship with course content. The path to contemplative learning is different for each educator who travels it. I relate experiences that led me to develop a personal contemplative practice and describe how, over time, my own practice affected my teaching. I focus especially on...

Feuerverger, G. (2001). Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel. New York: Routledge.
Summary:
Based on a nine-year study that Professor Grace Feuerverger carried out as ethnographer in an extraordinary village, “Oasis of Dreams” is about hope in the midst of deadly conflict. This book is a reflexive ethnography focusing on the two bilingual, bicultural educational institutions in this place of peaceful coexistence–an elementary school where Jewish and Arab children study together, and the “School for Peace” which...

Hart, T. (2004). “Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom.” Journal of Transformative Education, 2, 1, 28-46.
Summary:
How we know is as important as what we know. However, contemporary pedagogy and curriculum generally exclude a fundamental way of knowing—the contemplative—from any viable role in education in favor of a rational and empirical approach. As a result, few mainstream teachers or curriculum planners have explicitly integrated the contemplative into the classroom. Yet, contemplative knowing has been described as fundamental to the quest for knowledge and...

Haynes, D. (2005). Contemplative Practice and the Education of the Whole Person. ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 16, 2.
Summary: This article concerns why the author integrates contemplative practices into courses on art and religion in a secular state university. For readers within seminaries and other religious institutions, she also discuss briefly the relationship of religious and theological education to contemplative inquiry. What follows is focused around three major questions. First, what is contemplative practice? Second, how are these practices integrated into...